During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

* 2011 – The United States ends its " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and Vé.

Some scholars have proposed that the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá may contain an account of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, as having been created by dwarfs.

In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree.

* Ask and Embla, in Norse mythology, the first humans

In Völuspá, at the creation of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, Hœnir and Lóðurr help Odin.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

Toward the end of the tour to promote Live Through This, the band released their first EP, titled Ask for It, in September 1995 ; it featured 1991 Peel session recordings of " Doll Parts " and " Violet ", as well as covers of The Wipers ' " Over the Edge " and " Pale Blue Eyes " by The Velvet Underground.

ørlǫglausa " ørlǫg-less " occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to driftwood, that is given breath, warmth and spirit by three gods, to create the first humans, Ask (" Ash ") and Embla ( possibly " Elm ").

" Don't Ask, Don't Tell " ( 2000 ): Miranda, the lawyer, pretends to be a stewardess at the event after telling her first few " dates " that she is a successful lawyer scares them off

The first element is the name Askøy came from the farm Ask ( Old Norse: Askr ) and the last element is øy, meaning " island ".

David Reuben, M. D .' s book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( But Were Afraid to Ask ), published in 1969, was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s.

Ask. com sponsored the car for most races in 2009, In the 2009 Spring Las Vegas race, the Shelby 427, Labonte recorded his first top 5 with Hall of Fame racing, and his best finish since he finished third in the Fall Martinsville race in 2006.

The album was their first to be fully co-produced by Mario Caldato Jr. Caldato was an engineer on Paul's Boutique and was credited as producer on that album's track " Ask for Janice ".

Ask. com's foray into NASCAR is the first instance of its venture into what it calls Super Verticals.

Ask Jeeves management became distracted, according to the East Bay Business Times, first by a search feature arms race with Google and Yahoo !, and then by its merger with Barry Diller's InterActive Corporation, announced in March 2005.

It first announced that it had acquired Excite Italia B. V. ( the operator of Excite Europe ), from Tiscali, S. p. A .; and, secondly, the company reported that it had reached a comprehensive settlement with InfoSpace regarding Excite in the United States, whereby Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace would share marketing costs and revenue from the Excite web search function.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he presented the series Open House, Picture Parade, Points of View, the leading literary quiz Take it or Leave it, Ask the Family, BBC3 – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say " fuck " on British television ( Robinson told Tynan that this was " an easy way to make history ") – and Call My Bluff.

When in Hollywood ... is showing at the end of the credits, and it consists of three blue cards, the first saying " Universal Studios — the Entertainment Center of the World ," the second saying " When in Hollywood Visit Universal Studios ," and the last adding " Ask for Babs ".

* Ask and Embla, the first humans in Norse Mythology

Their first regular TV series, Ask the Leyland Brothers, ran on Australian television from 1976 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1984.

Another change in tradition came during the 1941-42 academic year, when Triangle produced Ask Me Another, its first show in revue format.

Cosmopolitan also has a section called " Ask Him Anything " where a male writer answers readers ' questions about men and dating.

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Two additional parallels drawn from Norse mythology are the depiction of the Sun ( the Goddess Sunna ) as female and the Moon ( the God Máni ) as male ; and the origin of humanity wherein men are created from an ash tree ( Ask ) and women from an elm ( Embla ) by the Aesir.

Pyke was a regular panellist on the Yorkshire Television science programme Don't Ask Me from 1974 to 1979, and was awarded the Pye Colour Television Award as the most promising male newcomer to television in 1975.

A preceding stanza to the account of the creation of Ask and Embla in Völuspá provides a catalog of dwarf names, and stanza 10 has been read as describing the creation of human forms from the earth.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary, maenads are depicted as corrupted human beings in service of the ancient and powerful Greek vampire Kakistos, whose name means in Greek " the worst ", the natural superlative of kakos meaning " bad ".

Yorke is also notable as a political activist on behalf of other causes, including human rights and anti-war movements such as Jubilee 2000, Amnesty International and CND, and Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign.

* Ask and Embla, in Norse Mythology

He has been mentioned as one of several writers who proposed analogs of Ask and Embla in comparative mythology, and who sought Indo-Iranian analogs for the Poetic Edda poem, Völuspá.

Ask any group of ballerinas to do ten push-ups or three chin-ups and the results, considering the amount of physical training they have had, will be very disappointing.

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I had come to Chicago from New York early in September with a dramatic production called Ask Tony.

Ask Tony was doomed from the moment Kupcinet leveled on it in his Sun-Times column.

I finally went downstairs to the bar off the main lobby where most of the cast were drowning their sorrows over the untimely passing of Ask Tony.

Ask each member to write a statement on such topics as: `` What Christ Means To Me '', `` What The Church Means To Me '', `` Why Join The Church '', `` The Duties Of Church Members '', etc..

Ask each new member to bring his Pledge of Loyalty to the Reception Service.

Ask the new members to meet thirty minutes before the service to complete `` talent sheets '' and pledge cards.

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In both sources, three gods, one of whom is Odin, find Ask and Embla and bestow upon them various corporeal and spiritual gifts.

A depiction of Ask and Embla ( 1919 ) by Robert Engels.

In stanza 17 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once found Ask and Embla on land.

That month, Clinton implemented a Department of Defense directive known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ", which allowed gay men and women to serve in the armed services provided they kept their sexuality a secret, and forbade the military from inquiring about an individual's sexual orientation.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

The album features eight tracks co-written by Neil and Tim, which feature the brothers harmonising on lead vocals, except on the sombre " All I Ask " on which Tim sang lead.

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The full name of the policy at the time was " Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue.

" The " Don't Ask " provision mandated that military or appointed officials will not ask about or require members to reveal their sexual orientation.

On October 12, 2010, she granted an immediate worldwide injunction prohibiting the Department of Defense from enforcing the " Don't Ask Don't Tell " policy and ordered the military to suspend and discontinue any investigation or discharge, separation, or other proceedings based on it.

Following passage of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, the Justice Department asked the Ninth Circuit to suspend LCR's suit in light of the legislative repeal.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.